The Nevada Gaming Commission has rejected a new game concept that would have enabled convenience store customers to take their change from a transaction as a credit on a slot machine at the cash register. Commissioners today voted 3-2 to reject a proposal.
It’s no surprise that Michael Morton, the developer and operator of the upscale N9NE Group restaurants and nightclubs at the Palms, is where he is today.
More than half of the discarded materials from the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center were recycled in 2009, but the recycling rate of those facilities' building partners helped push the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority's green record to among the best in the country among meeting facilities.
Head of LVCVA says development signals to world city is a business destination
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
The organization that produces the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas has obtained the trademark rights for “World Trade Center, Las Vegas” and will work to develop a location in the city as a center for international trade.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air is going to Hawaii. The airline’s parent company, Allegiant Travel Co., today announced plans to acquire six Boeing 757-200 twin-engine jets that would have the range to reach the Hawaiian Islands from western cities the airline currently serves.
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. took the time-tested formula of cutting expenses and getting back to operational basics as part of its strategy to restructure debt and dodge a date in Bankruptcy Court, executives told a Las Vegas business organization last week. But when two key executives gave a Las Vegas business organization an inside look at what Harrah’s did to survive, some of the moves turned out to be surprisingly simple.
The state Gaming Control Board has recommended approval of a slot-route license for a Henderson company whose owners once operated payday loan stores that were closed voluntarily after being notified by the Nevada Financial Institutions Division that they were violating state lending laws.
Finding a hole to race into a defensive secondary was a regular challenge for Mike Waters when he was a running back in coach John Robinson’s offense at UNLV, but that wasn’t nearly as challenging as navigating a course through the intricacies of starting a business.
Government leaders have to change their mindset about how transportation projects are developed, planning more regional development and less by states, a leading transportation consultant says.
The multimedia team at the Aria is working to develop interactive display signs that will enable gamblers to find progressive slot machines with the biggest jackpots on the casino floor.
Ever since it became clear a month ago that financier Carl Icahn would be the new owner of the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, the big question has been: When will it open?
Maybe you’ve asked the same question when you’ve seen them smiling from behind the nicely fanned-out handful of big bills or chortling through their spiels on how fun it is to be a winner.
There's little to glean about the success of CityCenter from the first earnings results issued by the major casino companies since the opening of MGM Mirage's shiny new Strip addition.
Never has a Kia Sorento gotten such great mileage — and never has Las Vegas enjoyed such a free ride. South Korea’s second-largest car manufacturer made its Super Bowl advertising debut in the third quarter of Sunday’s game with a collection of life-size toys joy riding through the National Football League’s ban against showing casinos.
The number of visitors to Las Vegas declined by 3 percent last year when compared to 2008. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said the city had 36,351,469 visitors last year.
Printing and selling T-shirts with the phrase “Who dat in the Super Bowl?” will get you a cease-and-desist order from the National Football League. The NFL considers the phrases “Who dat?” and “Super Bowl” its intellectual property. Nevermind “Who dat?” was part of the Louisiana vernacular long before New Orleans Saints fans adopted it as a battle cry for their team, which will make its first Super Bowl appearance Sunday.
A Las Vegas developer has acquired more than two acres at a key intersection on the Las Vegas Strip for $25 million after being deemed the only qualified bidder in a Clark County auction.
The proponents of a maglev train line between Las Vegas and Southern California say a Chinese government-controlled bank has agreed to loan up to $7 billion to help build the high-speed transportation system.
Southwest Airlines’ top executive says the airline is in a position to grow in Las Vegas as the economy gets better but stopped short of promising new flights to McCarran International Airport. Southwest CEO Gary Kelly, in Las Vegas Monday to congratulate local employees for winning the company’s 2009 Spirit Week competition, said he was well aware that his arrival coincided with competitor US Airways’ closure of its pilot and flight attendant bases at McCarran and said his airline — McCarran’s busiest — doesn’t take Las Vegas for granted.
MGM Mirage, the state’s largest employer and taxpayer, is rejoining the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce after a six-year hiatus. Jim Murren, chairman and CEO of the company, told an audience at Preview 2010 on Thursday that the decision to rejoin the chamber came after MGM Mirage’s “near-death experience” during the construction of its CityCenter.
US Airways, the second-busiest air carrier at McCarran International Airport for more than a decade, narrowed losses in the fourth quarter with a strategy that includes a major cutback in Las Vegas. At one time, the airline had an average 140 daily flights here.
How Southern Nevada will fare economically in 2010 will be the key topic today at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce’s biggest networking event, Preview Las Vegas.
Expecting good turnouts for four conventions that end when the Super Bowl weekend begins, the Nevada Taxicab Authority has approved additional cabs on city streets in early February. The five-member board that regulates Clark County’s taxi industry also authorized additional cabs for NASCAR weekend at the end of the month.
The airline industry is suffering the same fate as Southern Nevada’s resort community, serving fewer customers who are paying less for what they get, an aviation analyst says.
The parent company of Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air saw its fourth-quarter earnings shrink with climbing fuel prices and an economy that forced the company to reduce fares.
Southern Nevada’s dependence on tourism has been common knowledge for years, but a new report suggests that it’s the most tourism-dependent economy in the United States. The Las Vegas area ranked first, second or third in five of the six comparisons, and in the sixth index, it ranked fourth out of the 23.
Scott Sousa thinks he has the right recipe for opening an upscale restaurant in a down economy — give customers flavors they’ve probably never tasted before.
Mayor Shari Buck gives annual State of the City Address
Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010
While the recession raged in Southern Nevada, 35 major businesses opened their doors in North Las Vegas, 12 others expanded substantially and 1,500 new business licenses — nearly half of them for home-based operations — were issued by the city.
The Nevada Gaming Commission has approved a settlement with Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. over a complaint involving the rescission of three sports wagers in violation of state gaming regulations at the Harrah’s sports book on the Strip.
The Nevada Gaming Commission today approved the licensing of Carl Icahn’s Tropicana Entertainment LLC to control three Nevada properties and position the company to oversee nine casinos in four states.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines, the market leader at McCarran International Airport, today reported fourth-quarter earnings that gave the airline its 37th straight year of profitability.
One of the assets of a great tourism destination is its transportation infrastructure, and 2009 had its fair share of news about three rail proposals that not only would get tourists to Las Vegas, but move them around the city once they are here.
Harrah’s disputes report, says it’s waiting for economy to improve
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
A gaming industry analyst says he believes Harrah’s Entertainment has begun soliciting bids to complete the Octavius Tower at Caesars Palace. But a Harrah’s spokesman said today that the company hasn’t made any moves.
Two nightclubs at Station Casinos properties have closed their doors for different reasons that officials are emphasizing have nothing to do with the company’s bankruptcy filing. Cherry, the Red Rock Resort club that opened its doors when the property debuted in April 2006, and Stoney’s North Forty, a country music club at Santa Fe Station, are making way for new attractions.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors today authorized spending $296,000 over two years to develop a new event for the city that would bring bagpipers and drummers, Celtic dancing and athletic competitions.
November visitors increased 2.9 percent from a year earlier
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010
November marked the third consecutive year-over-year increase in monthly visitation, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority announced today. More than 2.9 million people visited Las Vegas during November 2009.